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afford to əˈfɔ:dtu: ＴＩ短语⁶⁵¹³
基本例句
付得起,能承担
And as I pointed out in my last column, we can afford to do this.
我在上次的专栏文章中曾说，我们是能够做到的。 yeeyan
But as Yang and I talked it became apparent that he could afford to live somewhere much more salubrious if he chose to.
但当我和杨交谈，问题变得很明显，如果他选择住在其他光鲜一点的地方，那却是他无法承担的。 yeeyan
I have to do a moonlighting job, so that I can afford to rent an apartment near to my company.
我不得不做一份兼职的工作，这样我才能租得起靠近公司的一间公寓。 kekenet
Since then the “ parasites” have got older, and a lot of them are living with their parents not because they want to but because they cannot afford to live independently.
自此以后，“寄生族”已经长大。他们中的大多数之所以同父母住在一起，不是处于自愿，而是因为他们无法承担独自生活的费用。 ecocn
The kind of foreign help which people usually seek for their children, I can afford to despise; being above it, I hope.
人们通常为他们的子女寻求那一类不相干的帮助，我却能够蔑视它；因为我希望我超越它。 kekenet |